Re: [Distutils] State of the wheel spec (Was: How to handle launcher script importability?)

2013-08-22 Thread Vinay Sajip
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com writes: However, the pydist.json that wheel currently writes is in the category of arbitrary additional metadata in the dist-info directory, since the metadata 2.0 spec is still far from stable. You can perhaps see why that could cause confusion - was that

Re: [Distutils] State of the wheel spec (Was: How to handle launcher script importability?)

2013-08-22 Thread Paul Moore
On 21 August 2013 23:20, Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com writes: Um, the current wheel spec uses PEP 345 + setuptools metadata only. If distlib is expecting PEP 426 metadata in wheel files, it is not compliant with the spec. I can certainly

Re: [Distutils] State of the wheel spec (Was: How to handle launcher script importability?)

2013-08-22 Thread Daniel Holth
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:24 AM, Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 August 2013 23:20, Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com writes: Um, the current wheel spec uses PEP 345 + setuptools metadata only. If distlib is expecting PEP 426 metadata

[Distutils] State of the wheel spec (Was: How to handle launcher script importability?)

2013-08-21 Thread Paul Moore
On 21 August 2013 13:01, Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote: If you want to say distlib won't support pre-Metadata 2.0 specifications of script metadata, then that's your choice - it's not contrary to the standards but I'd view it as a quality of implementation choice. I view the

Re: [Distutils] State of the wheel spec (Was: How to handle launcher script importability?)

2013-08-21 Thread Vinay Sajip
Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com writes: BUT, this means that there is no spec of the current behaviour, and no implementation of the Wheel 1.0 spec anywhere. [snip] or the wheel spec needs a review reasonably soon. I think it's this. I'm not sure to what extent wheels are being used in anger

Re: [Distutils] State of the wheel spec (Was: How to handle launcher script importability?)

2013-08-21 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 21 Aug 2013 22:42, Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com writes: BUT, this means that there is no spec of the current behaviour, and no implementation of the Wheel 1.0 spec anywhere. [snip] or the wheel spec needs a review reasonably soon. I

Re: [Distutils] State of the wheel spec (Was: How to handle launcher script importability?)

2013-08-21 Thread Paul Moore
On 21 August 2013 21:40, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: Um, the current wheel spec uses PEP 345 + setuptools metadata only. If distlib is expecting PEP 426 metadata in wheel files, it is not compliant with the spec. There won't be a new version of the wheel spec until after PEP 426

Re: [Distutils] State of the wheel spec (Was: How to handle launcher script importability?)

2013-08-21 Thread Vinay Sajip
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com writes: Um, the current wheel spec uses PEP 345 + setuptools metadata only. If distlib is expecting PEP 426 metadata in wheel files, it is not compliant with the spec. I can certainly rectify that - I was possibly confused by the fact that the latest wheel

Re: [Distutils] State of the wheel spec (Was: How to handle launcher script importability?)

2013-08-21 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 22 August 2013 08:20, Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com writes: Um, the current wheel spec uses PEP 345 + setuptools metadata only. If distlib is expecting PEP 426 metadata in wheel files, it is not compliant with the spec. I can certainly